Monday, March 14, 2011

"Potter's Homecoming"

The headline "Minnesota-born Michael Simon returns from Georgia to the Northern Clay Center for a career retrospective" caught my eye. This article in our local newspaper claimed that "Simon is one of his generation's more influential potters" so I had to see for myself. On Saturday the Clay Center's galleries and showroom were wall-to-wall people when I got there, and after spending a short time viewing his work, I decided that the description of the artist's reputation was not hyperbole, but well-deserved. The top pot has a horse design and the bottom shows a frequent bird motif that he uses. Tomorrow I'll show you more of his work plus other pots in another gallery that featured artistic creations of ceramicists who studied at the University of Minnesota with Simon in the late '60's. (I'm going back again next week, hoping that the crowds will be gone so I can take my time looking, and looking, and looking!)

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. " ~George Bernard Shaw

13 comments:

Your life truly has gone to pot! Just kidding! I love these things. My mother worked in clay once upon a time but I never could get the hang of it. Our son, when a teen, dug up some old pots from a riverbank in Pennsylvania. I think he's still got 'em.

Love ceramics. I had collect them. Had lived in Menorca Spain with a Swiss potter, meat in London. He gave me the love of it. have a lot in my flat. Since them, have to keep money to buy beads to create my necklaces... since 30 years.Can see them on my site. Clic on the photos on my blog, please.have a nice day. Hello from Lausanne Switzerland.